Stefano Canossa
@stecanossa.bsky.social
Framework materials, total scattering & Fourier transform enthusiast │ Curator of patterns and alternative crystallographic teaching at behance.net/specialdefects
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Stefano Canossa
@stecanossa.bsky.social
· Sep 28
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November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
They should make an H(ypnosis)-index for generative-art gifs, defined as the ratio between how long people get trapped in front of it and the actual length of the gif (this is 3 seconds)... For me, this gif has H in the range 20-25
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
They should make an H(ypnosis)-index for generative-art gifs, defined as the ratio between how long people get trapped in front of it and the actual length of the gif (this is 3 seconds)... For me, this gif has H in the range 20-25
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Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
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#compchem 🗳️ I'm making a series of exercices on “molecular simulation of materials”, focusing on classical atomistic methods. Other lecturers cover electronic structure and ab initio MD.
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
a woman in a suit says okay in front of a nbc sign
ALT: a woman in a suit says okay in front of a nbc sign
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November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#compchem 🗳️ I'm making a series of exercices on “molecular simulation of materials”, focusing on classical atomistic methods. Other lecturers cover electronic structure and ab initio MD.
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
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I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
Symmetry groups wrapping paper
You may have heard mathematicians say that there are only 17 types of wallpaper. Which is a shorthand way of saying, if you print a repeating pattern, it will definitely have 1 of only 17 possible sym...
mathsgear.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
And here we have our Fourier transform nr. 58! As far as I'm concerned, perhaps the most enigmatic and unexpected spectrum so far... anyway, quite a spectacle! #BraggYourPattern #Fouriertransform #crystallography
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And here we have our Fourier transform nr. 58! As far as I'm concerned, perhaps the most enigmatic and unexpected spectrum so far... anyway, quite a spectacle! #BraggYourPattern #Fouriertransform #crystallography
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
While playing around with shapes I discovered another optical illusion: it looks like it's tilting while going inwards, doesn't it... 🧐 it's not — check the corners. Its Fourier spectrum is really unlike anything I've seen so far... will post it soon. #BraggYourPattern
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
While playing around with shapes I discovered another optical illusion: it looks like it's tilting while going inwards, doesn't it... 🧐 it's not — check the corners. Its Fourier spectrum is really unlike anything I've seen so far... will post it soon. #BraggYourPattern
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Understanding geometry through model making
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Understanding geometry through model making
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SAVE THE DATE! The 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) takes place June 28–July 4, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden. Topics: single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction & 3D electron diffraction.
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
SAVE THE DATE! The 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) takes place June 28–July 4, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden. Topics: single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction & 3D electron diffraction.
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
A truly delightful piece indeed #chemsky
Love this piece in @natchem.nature.com by Judy Wu:
'...benzene is more than a molecule — it is a symbol of industrial revolutions, of new ways to represent molecules, and an example of the quiet forces that move science forward: kindness, conviction, and generosity.'
rdcu.be/eMn4o
#ChemSky
'...benzene is more than a molecule — it is a symbol of industrial revolutions, of new ways to represent molecules, and an example of the quiet forces that move science forward: kindness, conviction, and generosity.'
rdcu.be/eMn4o
#ChemSky
The human story of benzene
Nature Chemistry - The discovery of benzene two centuries ago marked a turning point in chemistry. From contributing to the development of chemical bonding concepts, to its practical use in the...
rdcu.be
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A truly delightful piece indeed #chemsky
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🌟 MOF Expert Panel Confirmed 🌟
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
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#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
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#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🌟 MOF Expert Panel Confirmed 🌟
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
👉 attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/482...
#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
👉 attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/482...
#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
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🎵 Sound-controlled crystals?
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🎵 Sound-controlled crystals?
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
I wonder how many Japanese academics would drink a Sake called "Sake of clarity"; the romans used to say "In vino veritas", so they already took the lead... (yes, I mean Pb)
October 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I wonder how many Japanese academics would drink a Sake called "Sake of clarity"; the romans used to say "In vino veritas", so they already took the lead... (yes, I mean Pb)
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Despite their sleek appearance, Audrey Moores found that AI generated chemical structures on second glance were consistently incorrect, despite multiple rounds of prompt engineering.
The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn
AIs like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae
www.chemistryworld.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Despite their sleek appearance, Audrey Moores found that AI generated chemical structures on second glance were consistently incorrect, despite multiple rounds of prompt engineering.
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#chemistry#MOF Interconversion of single-crystal morphologies: initial state, intermediate state, and final state. #chemsky#RSC
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#chemistry#MOF Interconversion of single-crystal morphologies: initial state, intermediate state, and final state. #chemsky#RSC
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🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery.
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry at Imperial College London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry is available, as advertised on jobs.a...
jobs.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery.
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Time for a new 57th entry in my #Reciprocart gallery! This time we look at the frequency spectrum of a Hyperbolic tiling of triangles 📐 Unsurprisingly (for the experienced) it's a bunch of lines... but the hexagonal symmetry is visible if one looks close enough 🧐 #crystallography #Braggyourpattern
October 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Time for a new 57th entry in my #Reciprocart gallery! This time we look at the frequency spectrum of a Hyperbolic tiling of triangles 📐 Unsurprisingly (for the experienced) it's a bunch of lines... but the hexagonal symmetry is visible if one looks close enough 🧐 #crystallography #Braggyourpattern
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Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
October 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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I’m excited to join the IUCr Early Career Board for Acta Cryst. A, J. Appl. Cryst., and J. Synchrotron Rad. 💎🌐
Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!
#IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard
🔗 journals.iucr.org/s/services/e...
Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!
#IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard
🔗 journals.iucr.org/s/services/e...
(IUCr) Editors and Co-editors of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
journals.iucr.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I’m excited to join the IUCr Early Career Board for Acta Cryst. A, J. Appl. Cryst., and J. Synchrotron Rad. 💎🌐
Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!
#IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard
🔗 journals.iucr.org/s/services/e...
Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!
#IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard
🔗 journals.iucr.org/s/services/e...
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2025 isn't over yet but it's unlikely that Twitter will see a resurgence of research discussions.
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
2025 isn't over yet but it's unlikely that Twitter will see a resurgence of research discussions.
Incredible how so simple building blocks can form such a sophisticated, beautiful system... not to mention what we are still figuring out about it! Hopefully just the beginning of an exciting partnership with @jules-oppenheim.bsky.social and
@mirceadinca.bsky.social 🚀
#MOFs #Totalscattering
@mirceadinca.bsky.social 🚀
#MOFs #Totalscattering
Our first paper since the #MOF #NobelPrize and first collaboration with @stecanossa.bsky.social!
Alice performed one of the most detailed studies of MOF ion conductivity, rationalizing trends in cation type, charge carrier conc., and vacancy sites based on structure.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Alice performed one of the most detailed studies of MOF ion conductivity, rationalizing trends in cation type, charge carrier conc., and vacancy sites based on structure.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Incredible how so simple building blocks can form such a sophisticated, beautiful system... not to mention what we are still figuring out about it! Hopefully just the beginning of an exciting partnership with @jules-oppenheim.bsky.social and
@mirceadinca.bsky.social 🚀
#MOFs #Totalscattering
@mirceadinca.bsky.social 🚀
#MOFs #Totalscattering
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@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu is on Bluesky!
You will find:
🔬 EU-funded science news & breakthroughs
💰 Calls, tenders & funding tips (Horizon Europe, ERC, MSCA…)
🚀 Projects growing from TRL 1 to market-ready
📊 Tools & resources for researchers
Join the conversation!
You will find:
🔬 EU-funded science news & breakthroughs
💰 Calls, tenders & funding tips (Horizon Europe, ERC, MSCA…)
🚀 Projects growing from TRL 1 to market-ready
📊 Tools & resources for researchers
Join the conversation!
October 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu is on Bluesky!
You will find:
🔬 EU-funded science news & breakthroughs
💰 Calls, tenders & funding tips (Horizon Europe, ERC, MSCA…)
🚀 Projects growing from TRL 1 to market-ready
📊 Tools & resources for researchers
Join the conversation!
You will find:
🔬 EU-funded science news & breakthroughs
💰 Calls, tenders & funding tips (Horizon Europe, ERC, MSCA…)
🚀 Projects growing from TRL 1 to market-ready
📊 Tools & resources for researchers
Join the conversation!
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🔓The cover of issue 40 features #OpenAccess work by
Oksana Danylyuk & co which discusses host–guest conformational adaptation in the crystal complexes of pentamidine & p-sulfonato-calix[n]arenes – read it here⬇️🧪
doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Oksana Danylyuk & co which discusses host–guest conformational adaptation in the crystal complexes of pentamidine & p-sulfonato-calix[n]arenes – read it here⬇️🧪
doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🔓The cover of issue 40 features #OpenAccess work by
Oksana Danylyuk & co which discusses host–guest conformational adaptation in the crystal complexes of pentamidine & p-sulfonato-calix[n]arenes – read it here⬇️🧪
doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Oksana Danylyuk & co which discusses host–guest conformational adaptation in the crystal complexes of pentamidine & p-sulfonato-calix[n]arenes – read it here⬇️🧪
doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...
📍Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Happy to share this little tutorial review:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry
Identifying and Characterising Flexible Crystals
Mechanically flexible single crystals are emerging as a useful class of materials due to their unique combination of crystallinity and molecular-scale responses to applied mechanical stress. In this t...
pubs.rsc.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Happy to share this little tutorial review:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry